LETTERS AND CONVERSATIONAL REMARKS, BY THE LATE REV. JOHN NEWTON, RECTOR OF ST. MARY WOOLNOTH, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON: DURING THE LAST EIGHTEEN YEARS OF HIS LIFE. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY S. WHITING & CO. THEOLOGICAL AND Paul & Thomas, Printers. THOUGH the publication of the letters of Whitfield, Cowper, Romaine, Cadogan, and many other valuable characters, after their decease, may be deemed a sufficient apology for publishing the no less valuable letters of the late worthy Mr. Newton; still it may be proper and satisfactory to state the circumstances which induced me to send them abroad at the present time. On the Lord's day evening after the death of Mr. New ton, I preached a sermon in Kingsland Chapel, in reference to that event. Before concluding the discourse, I read a few extracts from those letters which he wrote to me while re siding in Edinburgh, wherein his views respecting his final dismission were very impressively stated. Since that time I have been repeatedly requested to publish such letter from him as were in my possession. This led me to look over the correspondence, which appeared so truly interesting that I was induced to make a selection, leaving out whatever I thought he would have suppressed had he revised then himself for publication. I was peculiarly pleased to find, on reviewing my papers, that immediately after Mr. Newton became incapable to carry on epistolary correspondence, I had kept journals of my various visits to London, previous to my settling in its neighbourhood; and that in these journals I had inserted the substance of many conversations which I had with that excellent man. This I did entirely for my own gratification. I cannot, 63 |